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Weezer have announced a concert film shot during their ongoing 2024 tour (get tickets here) celebrating the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut, aka The Blue Album.

Titled Weezer’s Voyage to the Blue Planet: The Concert Film, it was captured at Boston’s Td Garden on September 10th and will livestream at Moment.co on October 13th and 14th.

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$13 early bird tickets will be available through September 27th at noon Pacific Time, after which the price will rise to $16. Tickets purchased the day of will be available for $18. A replay of the film will be up for 24 hours after it streams. Tickets are available here.

Weezer are also celebrating the Blue Album’s 30th anniversary with an expansive reissue featuring 36 unreleased tracks. Pre-orders are ongoing ahead of its release on November 1st.

Featuring special guests Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr., Weezer’s tour has remaining dates throughout Texas,...

Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s Sophia Loren: La Signora Di Napoli

Edoardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead; Mario Mattoli’s Poverty And Nobility opposite Totò and Enzo Turco; Alessandro Blasetti’s Too Bad She’s Bad with Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica; Dino Risi’s The Sign Of Venus (Il Segno Di Venere) with Franca Valeri and Raf Vallone; Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Eleanora Brown, plus De Sica’s 1963 and Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio All’Italiana) with Mastroianni, and The Voyage (Il Viaggio) with Richard Burton; Stanley Donen’s Arabesque with Gregory Peck; Francesco Rosi’s More Than A Miracle (C’era Una Volta) with Omar Sharif; Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess From Hong Kong with Marlon Brando; Ettore Scola’s A Special Day (Una......

Peter and Susan Pevensie don't return to Narnia in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" due to their age and experiences. In the books, Peter is able to return to Narnia while Susan is forbidden from doing so. The films offer a more optimistic reason for Peter and Susan's absence, suggesting that they have learned what they can from Narnia and it's time for them to live in their own world.

Peter and Susan Pevensie didn't return to Narnia for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The third Chronicles of Narnia movie, The Voyage sees siblings Lucy and Edmund Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, traveling over the seas of Narnia, and many viewers wonder why Peter and Susan aren't with them. The first two Narnia movies centered on all Pevensie children. Peter and Susan, however, only appeared briefly in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader...

"Stranger Things: The Voyage" is a new four-part miniseries that takes fans on a terrifying journey across the sea, away from Hawkins, Indiana, featuring storms, strange doctors, and demogorgons. Fans should be excited about the creative team behind the series, including writer Michael Moreci and illustrator Todor Hristov, who have proven their expertise in handling the "Stranger Things" lore and characters. Similar to the film "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," this series will delve into an important yet understated aspect of the "Stranger Things" universe, potentially providing the origin story of the demogorgon seen in Russia during season 4.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things: The Voyage While Stranger Things is a series that has become synonymous with ‘80s horror and nostalgic Sci-Fi, the newest addition to the lore is taking fans on a journey across the sea, far away from Hawkins, Indiana, as a new Stranger Things...

At the specialty box office, reviews can have a huge impact. This weekend, “The Book of Henry” (Focus Features), Colin Trevorrow’s return to indie films, was scorched by critics and summoned only a mediocre start in 579 theaters ($1.4 million). On the other hand, the best per-theater-average came from “Hare Krishna” (Abramorama), a documentary the New York Times, normally critical in launching any specialized release, chose not to include among its reviews. It managed over $21,000 in one Manhattan theater.

While IFC’s Northern Ireland political story “The Journey” also delivered a surprisingly strong New York opening, the most encouraging news of the weekend was the impressive expansion for “Beatriz at Dinner” (Roadside Attractions).

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The Book of Henry (Focus) – Metacritic: 28

$1,407,000 in 579 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $2,431

Trevorrow broke out with Sundance indie “Safety Not Guaranteed,” which grossed a healthy $4 million, followed by blockbuster “Jurassic World.” This anemic personal project will...

Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most beautiful actresses to ever grace the silver screen. But while her looks may have been unparalleled, there was one woman she worried might lead her love Richard Burton astray — Sophia Loren.

In his new memoir, My Life in Focus: A Photographer’s Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet Set, Italian photographer Gianni Bozzacchi opened up about the his close relationship with Taylor and Burton. He first met them on the set of 1967’s The Comedians, and spent years traveling the globe with them afterwards.

Taylor and Burton had one of Hollywood’s most tumultuous relationships.

It had been so long since I last saw Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves—the last time being long before I started to become involved with movie posters—that I had forgotten that Antonio Ricci’s job at the start of the film, the job he so desperately needs a bicycle for, is pasting up movie posters.Researching De Sica posters to coincide with the current month-long restrospective at New York’s Film Forum I discovered that De Sica’s most famous film centers—as does the Shawshank Redemption, coincidentally—on a poster of Rita Hayworth. I had hoped that it would be a poster by Anselmo Ballester, who painted Hayworth gloriously many times, but the signature on the top right of the poster is clearly that of one T. Corbella. Tito Corbella (1885-1966) was an artist known for his sensuous portraits of Italian divas since the 1910s. Dave Kehr...

Actor finally declared in the right after four-decade wrangle over whether 60% or 70% of her 1974 earnings were taxable

It was 1974, the year Sophia Loren starred alongside Richard Burton in Vittorio de Sica's final film, The Voyage (Il Viaggio). It was also the year that marked the start of an almost four-decade battle with the Italian tax authorities – a battle that has finally ended.

In a verdict she described as "a miracle", Loren, 79 and living in Geneva, was declared by Italy's supreme court to have been in the right over calculation of tax paid on her 1974 earnings. Her accountants said she should pay 60% while the authorities said 70% was due.

"I am happy. A saga that has been going on for almost 40 years has finally ended," Loren, who remains one of Italy's most legendary and beloved actors, was quoted as telling La Stampa on Wednesday after the court of cassation's ruling. She...

Rome – Italy’s Supreme Court finally and officially cleared Sophia Loren of tax evasion charges that briefly landed her in jail 31 years ago, prompting the 79-year-old diva to declare the tardy decision a “miracle of justice.” Italy’s justice system is notoriously slow, but this case has been drawn out even by Italian standards. The charges stem from the 1974 tax return for the Oscar-winning actress. She declared less income that year because compensation on Vittorio De Sica’s The Voyage (Il viaggio) -- her work on the film earned her a David di Donatello nomination that year --

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HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will celebrate the life and career of Sophia Loren with a gala evening of film clips and personal remarks from her friends and colleagues, concluding with an onstage conversation with the Oscar®-winning actress on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

In 1961 Loren earned the first Academy Award® presented to a lead performer in a non-English speaking role, for “Two Women,” directed by Vittorio De Sica. Prior to her win, Loren had already made an indelible impression on film audiences both in her native Italy and throughout the world.

De Sica directed Loren to another Oscar nomination in “Marriage Italian Style” (1964) opposite her most frequent co-star, Marcello Mastroianni. The two starred in “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” (1964), the winner of that year’s Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Italy, and “A Special Day...

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HollywoodNews.com: Jolie. Depp. Narnia. Brand names all that led the pre-holiday boxoffice with a whimper , not a bang this weekend. So what’s the deal with “The Tourist?” I mean Jolie is arguably the biggest female box office star in the world right now, particularly in something as commercial as this light thriller set in Paris and Venice. Depp had a billion dollar grosser in his most recent, “Alice In Wonderland” earlier this year. Producer Graham King won a Best Picture Oscar for the hit “The Departed.” It marks the Hollywood major studio debut of director Florian Henckel VonDonnersmarck who won an Oscar for his critically acclaimed Foreign Language film winner, “The Lives Of Others” and was co-written by him with Oscar winning screenwriters Julian Fellowes (“Gosford Park”) and Christopher Quarrie (“The Usual Suspects”). The reviews though were universally dismal, only 7% positive among top critics at Rotten Tomatoes and 21% fresh overall.

Italian movie tycoon whose list of credits featured as many disasters as hits

The Italian-born film producer Dino De Laurentiis, who has died aged 91, will perhaps go down in movie history as the last "transatlantic" tycoon. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, producing films on both sides of the ocean, he had as many flops as hits. But De Laurentiis almost always succeeded in staying afloat.

In Rome, he produced Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning La Strada (1954) and the grandiose spectacular War and Peace (1956), but also made The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) and Waterloo (1970), which never recovered their costs. Relocating to the Us, he enjoyed success with Serpico (1973), Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Conan the Barbarian (1982), but had financial disasters including Year of the Dragon (1985) and a failed food emporium, which he opened in New York. De Laurentiis was also a starmaker, both in Italy, where...

tuesday top ten returns! It's for the list-maker in me and the list-lover in you

The Cannes film festival wrapped this weekend (previous posts) and the most recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Secret in Their Eyes is still in the midst of a successful Us run. That Oscar winning Argentinian film came to us from director Juan Jose Campanella. It's his second film to be honored by the Academy (Son of the Bride was nominated ten years back). The Academy voters obviously like Campanella and in some ways he's a Hollywood guy. When he's not directing Argentinian Oscar hopefuls he spends time making Us television with episodes of Law & Order, House and 30 Rock under his belt.

So let's talk foreign-language auteurs. Who does Oscar love most?

[The film titles discussed in this article will link to Netflix pages -- if available -- should you be curious to see the films]

Best Director winners Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) and Milos Forman

(Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

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